التطبيق الخميس.. «البيئة» تُعلن ضوابط بيع المواشي الحية بالوزن

The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture announced the regulations and mechanisms for selling live livestock prepared for slaughter by weight, signaling the start of implementing the decision on the first of Muharram 1447 AH.

The ministry specified a number of regulations for selling livestock by weight, aimed at ensuring the application of standards that guarantee their circulation and sale to consumers, and achieving the maximum benefit from this procedure, which positively reflects on the livestock sector in the Kingdom, in addition to enhancing the values of fairness and transparency in the buying and selling of livestock, and improving the quality and sustainability of the services provided in public benefit markets.

It clarified that the regulations include livestock prepared for slaughter both inside and outside the pens. The regulations for selling inside the pens prohibit the sale of any livestock without determining its weight, using approved scales according to the requirements, and obligating the renters of the pens to provide the scales, with the seller committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy in measuring weight, in addition to regularly maintaining the scales and keeping them clean to avoid the spread of diseases among animals, providing a suitable environment to ensure the safety of livestock during weighing, and being careful to avoid harming or stressing them, and committing to accurately recording all weighing operations, including the date, type of animal, recorded weight, and any data specified by the supervising authority.

It added that the regulations require the weighing process to be visible to both the seller and the buyer, enabling the latter to object and request a re-weighing if necessary, prohibiting tampering with the scales or measurements, or committing any fraudulent practices that affect the accuracy of the results, and granting the ministry's supervisor the right to stop any scale from use until its compliance with the approved specifications is verified, in addition to providing all facilities to the ministry's inspectors and making the required information available to them, as well as qualifying and training workers on the correct use of scales to ensure accuracy and efficiency in weighing.

On the other hand, the ministry clarified the regulations for selling livestock prepared for slaughter outside the pens and within the public benefit market areas, which included prohibiting the sale of any livestock without determining its weight, using an approved scale according to the requirements, and obligating the market investor to provide a sufficient number of scales within the market areas and outside the pens in proportion to the number of livestock in each market, ensuring that these scales are approved according to the regulations, along with the commitment to provide a specialized employee to carry out the weighing process.

It is noted that the ministry requires live livestock importers, in addition to health requirements and import permits, to prove the application of the environmental sustainability program, which helps in implementing the mechanisms for selling live livestock by weight.